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Edmund Sanders, of The Los Angeles Times, reports: "women wait as long as three days for water, using jerrycans to save their places in perpetual lines that snake around pumps. A year ago, residents could fill a 5-gallon plastic can in a few minutes, but lately the flow is so slow it takes half an hour. 'The water is running out,' said a breathless Mariam Ahmed Mohammed, 35, sweating at the pump with an infant strapped to her back. 'As soon as I fill one jerrycan, I put another at the back of the line.' Water isn't the only endangered resource. Forests were chopped down long ago, and the roots were dug up for firewood. Thousands of displaced families are living atop prime agricultural land, preventing nearby farmers from growing food."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100107O.shtml

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UN's most expensive mission exposed as farcical shambles

Almost six months after the United Nations launched its largest, most expensive and most hyped peacekeeping mission, promising to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur, the operation is failing to protect the people it was sent to save.

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